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| MeshGearFox Senior Member United States Joined 6686 days ago 316 posts - 344 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 3 29 April 2012 at 7:27am | IP Logged |
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I'm attempting to work through the Dine Bizaad textbook, but the morphophonological processes going on within the verbs are really confusing me. Specifically, in the sense of inhibiting me from understanding the underlying pattern of the verbal morphology, which in turn is making it hard for me to memorize the actual very forms.
Anyway, I'm up to chapter 4, and the morphophonology has been largely ignored, appears to be pretty complex, and maybe even unpredictable. Also, Navajo being polysynthetic, I would assume an understanding of this would be necessary to properly derive verbs. So, does anyone have any information on what sort of alternations the verbal morphemes undergo within a Navajo verb when they come in contact with eachother? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sbrn2005 Newbie Korea, South Joined 4760 days ago 14 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 2 of 3 29 April 2012 at 10:15am | IP Logged |
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You could try checking out some of James Kari's work. He's a linguist who has done a lot of research on Na-Dene languages, specifically Alaskan Athabaskan languages, but I think he's also done work with Navajo.
Also, if you're only on chapter 4 of your book, they might be saving the phonology for later, after you've learned how to add the bound morphemes, in order not to scare you off. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4948 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 3 of 3 29 April 2012 at 4:30pm | IP Logged |
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I have this http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Navajo_Verb.html?id= FOXCX14l58AC in a
digital copy that I could send you. It has pretty good explanations for all the rules of combination, and it goes into a lot more depth than the Dine Bizaad textbook, which I have used. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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